Hello everybody,

Did Mr. Benson get an answer to his question?
Perhaps I missed it but I was sort of watching.

I have a similar query ...
I wonder what I would have to configure if say
I wanted to actually put a little toggle switch on the
hot lead to the SCSI drive's power supply, and actually
turn the drive(s) off when they are particularly idle.

How about if I had lots of RAM and wanted to run apache
and just deliver 3 or 4 pages (under 2 megs of HTML)
i.e., no disk access and just deliver from RAM?

Could a regular non-wizard guy like me figure out how to do this?

Thanks for your interest, or any thoughts you may have.

Ken Hughes

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Mark Benson wrote:
> I'm actively (i.e. I will in the end) planning to put NetBSD on my 
> LCIII (I bought it for that very purpose in fact!) and wondered if 
> it was able to spin down the hard disks during idle time. I have 
> two Quantum ProDrive SCSI disks on it (on in, one ext) and they 
> make noise. It's vitrually silent with them off though. It'd be 
> nice, as it's gonna be a DNS, to have them shut off when it's idle 
> as disk access will be largely unnecessary apart from booting and 
> shutting down.
> 
> Mark Benson